We climbed about 2 pitches worth of the initial section of the entrance funnel(on a slight rising diagonal left) before what had looked like good ice turned out to be thinly crusted slabs. We had to downclimb to our start and then realised it looked like it would have gone if we had started further right - at the furthest right possible(and stayed right until reaching the icefield). Unfortunately we felt we had lost too much time to continue the climb so we bailed. Gutted!nickdonohue - AltLd dnf - Jun/09 with Benoit Rosset